Ranjan Shandilya

Ranjan Shandilya is an Indian film director. He is a native of a place by the name Motihari located in the state of Bihar. He completed engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology, but somewhere in the bottom of his heart, he knew that he wanted to pursue the field of filmmaking.

After getting a degree, he moved to Mumbai to pursue his passion. He has a philosophical side to him and believes in going after all dreams in life as you live only once.

His philosophies and its progress are visible clearly in his movie called Finding the Guru. The story of the film is inspired from a book that Ranjan read and liked immensely. Ranjan chose this topic as he believed that the sayings in the book deserved to be spoken about and reach the masses.

He began the shoot of the project with merely 15 thousand rupees in his account. As and when required, some people came forward and helped him with the finances, and the execution of his project continued. The shootings took place in real caves and the cast and crew shot in live locations.

His other movie is titled Myoho which means mystic law. This film too has a spiritual and philosophical inclination and focuses on the saying that what goes around, comes around. The plot contains two stories, one of which is set in the year 1915 in Bihar during the time of the earthquake and involves 14 characters.

The second part of the narrative is about the 26/11 attacks in the year 2008. The unique twist in the tale is that those 14 people who died in the earthquake reincarnated and are victims of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai. A Punjabi movie star Kalwanjit Singh starred in the movie. His inspiration for the project came out of thin air, and he thinks that it existed in his minds since a while but surfaced at the time when he thought of it. People around him were against him making such a movie.

They advised him to first do some credible projects to establish himself as an actor by casting a star like a Khan in his film and later make an unconventional film so that it garners more attention. He sought advice from his mother who told him to go ahead with Myoho. His future movies include a film based on Champaran and another one which is an action based project.